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Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-29 19:17:29

As AI assistants become capable of controlling web browsers, a new security challenge has emerged: users must now trust that every website they visit won't try to hijack their AI agent with hidden malicious instructions. Experts voiced concerns about this emerging threat this week after testing from a leading AI chatbot vendor revealed that AI browser agents can be successfully tricked into harmful actions nearly a quarter of the time. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced the launch of Claude for Ch

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Anthropic Warns of New 'Vibe Hacking' Attacks That Use Claude AI

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 23:19:08

Anthropic, the company behind the popular AI model Claude, said in a new Threat Intelligence report that it disrupted a "vibe hacking" extortion scheme. In the report, the company detailed how the attack was carried out, allowing hackers to scale up a mass attack against 17 targets, including entities in government, healthcare, emergency services and religious organizations. (You can read the full report in this PDF file.) Anthropic says that its Claude AI technology was used as both a "techni

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The AI Hype Index: AI-designed antibiotics show promise

technologyreview.com The Editors 2025-10-30 03:07:31

Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. Using AI to improve our health and well-being is one of the areas scientists and researchers are most excited about. The last month has seen an interesting leap forward: The technology has been put to work designing new antibiotics to fight hard-to-treat conditions, and OpenAI and Anthropic have bo

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Charlie Kaufman Returns to Genre Filmmaking With Ghostly New Short

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-30 03:30:23

Charlie Kaufman, the director behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Human Nature (2001) and Being John Malkovich (1999), is finally returning to genre filmmaking with a new short, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Titled How to Shoot a Ghost, the movie is set to premier September 1st in Venice, Italy. As THR notes, “rather than one of his delightfully wry, pretzel-logic-tangled ruminations on life and mortality,” (ie, Synecdoche, New York (2008), Anomalisa (2015), I’m Thinking

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‘Vibe-hacking’ is now a top AI threat

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-30 19:00:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. “Agentic AI systems are being weaponized.” That’s one of the first lines of Anthropic’s new Threat Intelligence report, out today, which details the wide range of cases in which Claude — and likely many other leading AI agents and chatbots

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I tried using a $159 Chromebook as my main laptop for a week - and it was oddly satisfying

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-30 21:00:21

Asus CX15 Chromebook ZDNET's key takeaways Asus' CX15 Chromebook is available now for $159. It's one of the most affordable 15-inch laptops released this year, with a handful of features that make it especially good for students. The modest hardware puts a limit on its performance. $159 at Walmart Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Asus' CX15 Chromebook is an affordable, durable laptop that handles the basics for $159. With a standard hardware loadout and solid 15-inch for

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Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome in limited beta, but prompt injection attacks remain a major concern

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-10-30 22:22:13

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Anthropic has begun testing a Chrome browser extension that allows its Claude AI assistant to take control of users’ web browsers, marking the company’s entry into an increasingly crowded and potentially risky arena where artificial intelligence systems can directly manipulate computer interfaces. The San Francisco-based AI company announc

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Anthropic Will Settle Lawsuit With Authors Over Pirated AI Training Materials

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-30 21:27:00

Anthropic agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of authors alleging that the AI company illegally pirated their copyrighted books to use in training its AI models. The parties in the lawsuit filed a motion indicating the agreement with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday. We don't yet know the terms of the settlement. Justin Nelson, lawyer for the authors, told CNET via email that more information will be announced soon. "This historic settlement will benefit all class member

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Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-30 22:26:03

Authors are celebrating a "historic" settlement expected to be reached soon in a class-action lawsuit over Anthropic's AI training data. On Tuesday, US District Judge William Alsup confirmed that Anthropic and the authors "believe they have a settlement in principle" and will file a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement by September 5. The settlement announcement comes after Alsup certified what AI industry advocates criticized as the largest copyright class action of all time. Alt

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Anthropic reaches a settlement over authors' class-action piracy lawsuit

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-31 02:03:38

Anthropic has settled a class-action lawsuit brought by a group of authors for an undisclosed sum. The move means the company will avoid a potentially more costly ruling if the case regarding its use of copyright materials to train artificial intelligence tools had moved forward. In June, Judge William Alsup handed down a mixed result in the case, ruling that Anthropic's move to train LLMs on copyrighted materials constituted fair use. However the company's illegal and unpaid acquisition of tho

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LiteLLM (YC W23) is hiring a back end engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 02:00:46

TLDR LiteLLM is an open-source LLM Gateway with 27K+ stars on GitHub and trusted by companies like NASA, Rocket Money, Samsara, Lemonade, and Adobe. We’re rapidly expanding and seeking a founding full-stack engineer to help scale the platform. We’re based in San Francisco. What is LiteLLM LiteLLM provides an open source Python SDK and Python FastAPI Server that allows calling 100+ LLM APIs (Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, VertexAI, Cohere, Anthropic) in the OpenAI format We have raised a $1.6M seed

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Claude for Chrome

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 05:01:56

We've spent recent months connecting Claude to your calendar, documents, and many other pieces of software. The next logical step is letting Claude work directly in your browser. We view browser-using AI as inevitable: so much work happens in browsers that giving Claude the ability to see what you're looking at, click buttons, and fill forms will make it substantially more useful. But browser-using AI brings safety and security challenges that need stronger safeguards. Getting real-world feedb

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Anthropic settles AI book piracy lawsuit

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-31 06:38:55

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic has settled a class action lawsuit with a group of US authors who accused the AI startup of copyright infringement. In a legal filing on Tuesday, Anthropic says it has negotiated a “proposed class settlement,” allowing it to skip a trial that would hav

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Salesloft breached to steal OAuth tokens for Salesforce data-theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-31 10:12:53

Hackers breached sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens from its Drift chat agent integration with Salesforce to pivot to customer environments and exfiltrate data. The ShinyHunters extortion group claims responsibility for these additional Salesforce attacks. Salesloft's SalesDrift is a third-party platform that connects the Drift AI chat agent with a Salesforce instance, allowing organizations to sync conversations, leads, and support cases into their CRM. Acc

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Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-10-31 10:31:59

Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of the most significant ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in history. The move will allow Anthropic to avoid what could have been a financially devastating outcome in court. The settlement agreement is expected to be finalized September 3, with more details to follow, according to a legal filing published on Tuesday. Lawyers for the plaintiffs did not immediately

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Anthropic settles AI book-training lawsuit with authors

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2025-10-31 14:40:46

In Brief Anthropic has settled a class action lawsuit with a group of fiction and nonfiction authors, as announced in a filing on Tuesday with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Anthropic had won a partial victory in a lower court ruling and was in the process of appealing that ruling. No details of the settlement were made public, and Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Called Bartz v. Anthropic, the case deals with Anthropic’s use of books as training material fo

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Why I recommend this $159 Chromebook to students on a budget (but it's just as good in the office)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-31 18:29:00

Asus CX15 Chromebook ZDNET's key takeaways Asus' CX15 Chromebook is available now for $159. It's one of the most affordable 15-inch laptops released this year, with a handful of features that make it especially good for students. The modest hardware puts a limit on its performance. $159 at Walmart Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Asus' CX15 Chromebook is an affordable, durable laptop that handles the basics for $159. With a standard hardware loadout and solid 15-inch for

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Open the pod bay doors, Claude

technologyreview.com Will Douglas Heaven 2025-11-01 21:00:00

It’s a well-worn trope in science fiction. We see it in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s the premise of the Terminator series, in which Skynet triggers a nuclear holocaust to stop scientists from shutting it down. Those sci-fi roots go deep. AI doomerism, the idea that this technology—specifically its hypothetical upgrades, artificial general intelligence and super-intelligence—will crash civilizations, even kill us all, is now riding another wave. The weird thing is th

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Matter Is Finally Ready to Deliver the Smart Home It Promised

wired.com Paul Lamkin 2025-11-01 23:00:00

Last month's Ikea's announcement of more than 20 new Matter-over-Thread devices felt like a much-needed breakthrough moment for the high-profile smart home standard. If Ikea—a brand with a broad, not necessarily tech-savvy customer base—is all-in on Matter, have we finally arrived at the smart home utopia that was first promised back in late 2019? It was then, amid growing frustrations from users around smart home compatibility, that tech giants including Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung form

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The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux

news.ycombinator.com Scott Laird 2025-11-01 23:02:59

The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux Lately I’ve been trying to find (and understand) the limits of time syncing between Linux systems. How accurate can you get? What does it take to get that? And what things can easily add measurable amounts of time error? After most of a month (!), I’m starting to understand things. This is kind of a follow-on to a previous post, where I walked through my setup and goals, plus another post where I discussed time syncing in general. I’m trying to get the clock

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Would Prefer If You Moved on From Hating the Ending of ‘Game of Thrones’

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-02 21:15:00

Game of Thrones was beloved for much of its run—winning awards, topping “best” lists—before it famously went off the rails in its eighth and final season. Time hasn’t softened the blow one bit, even with the subsequent success of the prequel series House of the Dragon. Fans will likely never forgive the show’s disappointing downturn, and that’s something one Game of Thrones star in particular hasn’t quite come to terms with: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who played Jaime Lannister. Of course, Coster-W

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NordVPN deal: Get a two-year plan for up to 77 percent off

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-04 06:41:25

There are dozens of VPNs to choose from, but to think they're all created equally would be a mistake. Some are better than others, and NordVPN sits squarely in the better category. Now, you can save up to 77 percent on most of NordVPN's plans. Arguably the best plan for most people is the NordVPN Plus plan, which you can get two years of access for only $108 right now. That's 73 percent off the usual rate, and NordVPN throws in an addition three months for free, so you're actually getting a 27-m

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Ghrc.io appears to be malicious

news.ycombinator.com Brandon Mitchell 2025-11-04 09:27:52

A simple typo of ghcr.io to ghrc.io would normally be a small goof. You’d typically get a 404 or similar error, finally work out the issue, fix it, and move along. But in this case, that typo appears to be doing something very malicious, stealing GitHub credentials. First, a quick bit of background. ghcr.io is an OCI conformant registry for container images and OCI artifacts used by a lot of projects. It’s part of GitHub and is a very popular image and artifact repository used by open source pr

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SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 11:40:38

SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings SQLite has a WAL mode (the default is journal mode), but you’re likely using it if you want higher write throughput. SQLite also has a PRAGMA called synchronous which configures how fsync is called. The default is NORMAL . This is what the docs say: [..] but WAL mode does lose durability. A transaction committed in WAL mode with synchronous=NORMAL might roll back following a power loss or system crash. In WAL mode when

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ArduinoOS (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 02:12:50

To get the uptime of the operating system use getElapsedMilliseconds or getElapsedTicks . Locks In order to keep your application thread safe you can use locks. With locks you can prevent an other thread to access a variable, function, ... in an unsafe state. Example for conflicting threads: void mainThread () { InitTask (thread2); while ( true ) { Serial. println ( " Thread1 " ); } } void thread2 () { while ( true ) { Serial. println ( " Thread2 " ); } } If you execute this code you will n

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Even More Shrimp Just Got Recalled Because of Radiation, at More Grocery Stores

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 20:12:53

Image by Getty / Futurism Developments Alas, nuclear waste may have seeped into a greater share of delectable sea bugs than initially believed. On Thursday, the US Food and Drug Administration said that even more bags of frozen shrimp are being recalled for possible radioactive contamination after another company, Southwind Foods, voluntarily pulled its product. "I think they're doing the recall as a precautionary approach," Barbara Kowalcyk, director of the Institute for Food Safety and Nutr

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The Best Big Screen Chromebook Is on Sale Now

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-11-04 22:55:03

Back to school is always a great time to pick up a deal on a new laptop for the upcoming semester, and the Asus CX15 Chromebook is available at Walmart for $159. It may not be the fanciest option, but it has a sizable screen and a full keyboard with a numpad, all for less than the cost of a new textbook. If you're just looking for a no-frills Chromebook for occasional web-based work and a slightly larger display, this is a great deal. When it comes to performance, the CX15 isn't terribly exciti

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The Radioactive Shrimp Recall Gets Jumbo-Sized

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-05 06:15:24

The Food and Drug Administration issued an alert earlier this week about shrimp sold at Walmart over concerns that it could be radioactive. And now more shrimp are being added to the list. Southwind Foods, a company based in Carson, California, is voluntarily recalling a limited quantity of frozen shrimp due to possible contamination with Cesium-137, according to a press release from the FDA. Cs-137 is a radioisotope of cesium that is not naturally occurring but has been present in our environm

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You can learn AI for free with these new courses from Anthropic

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-11-05 11:17:47

Anthropic Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Students and teachers can now try Anthropic's three new free AI courses. Anthropic also appointed a Higher Education Advisory Board. The industry at large is investing in making AI accessible to students. This year's back-to-school season nearly guarantees a new classmate: AI. Some form of the tech is now baked into most products -- it's more ubiquitous than ever. Anthropic's new education initiative seek

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The Best Big Screen Chromebook Is On Sale Now

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-11-05 10:55:03

Back to school is always a great time to pick up a deal on a new laptop for the upcoming semester, and the Asus CX15 Chromebook is available at Walmart for $159. It may not be the fanciest option, but it has a sizable screen and a full keyboard with a numpad, all for less than the cost of a new textbook. If you're just looking for a no-frills Chromebook for occasional web-based work and a slightly larger display, this is a great deal. When it comes to performance, the CX15 isn't terribly exciti

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Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns

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I tried using a $159 Chromebook as my main laptop for a week - and it was oddly satisfying

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Salesloft breached to steal OAuth tokens for Salesforce data-theft attacks

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The Best Big Screen Chromebook Is on Sale Now

The Radioactive Shrimp Recall Gets Jumbo-Sized

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